Abstract
Electric current discharge in motor bearings is becoming more of a concern with the move toward electric vehicles (EV), since it can damage bearing surfaces and potentially cause premature failures. Electric discharge (ED) tests were carried out utilizing a self-improved ball-on-disc instrument under elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) regime to better understand the nature of electric discharge in EV motor bearings. The experiments prove that the discharge behaviour is related to the lubricant film thickness and the discharges appear at the minimum film thickness area. An electric discharge energy model was developed to describe the relationship between working conditions and the energy of a single discharge. The model was qualitatively verified by comparing the predicted ED damages with the ball-on-disc test results.
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